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NewsIf you're looking for a way to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your heart, the new Minecraft DLC has you covered
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NewsYou've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
By Joshua Wolens Published
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Summer HolidayEverything that happens when you do an Expedition Project in Arc Raiders
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On The HorizonArc Raiders roadmap: All upcoming content and updates
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Kensai/MageThe best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
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NewsArc Raiders dev says it uses 'aggression-based matchmaking' to pair bloodthirsty, PvP-minded players with each other
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newsFallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'
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NewsYou've got 1 week left to play Anthem, the game that mortally wounded the one-time king of RPG studios
By Joshua Wolens Published
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NewsThis sequel to a classic NES beat 'em up is about to be delisted from Steam, but you can get it for a few bucks in the meantime: 'The delisting process is currently underway'
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsSome of my favorite childhood platformers are free on Epic for today only, and they've all been updated for better crossplay with Steam owners
By Justin Wagner Published
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Fruit CodesAll active Blox Fruits codes in January 2025 and how to redeem them
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MultivaniaI played more than 20 metroidvanias this year other than Silksong, and these are the ones doing the most creative/experimental things with the genre
By Dominic Tarason Published
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🏆2025 was the best year for ninja games ever, but all of them just made it clear that 2008's Ninja Gaiden 2 remains untouchable
By Wes Fenlon Published
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newsBlade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'
By Andy Chalk Published
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Crime TimeGTA 6: What we know about Rockstar's return to Vice City
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Icebreaker007 First Light: All the key details on IO Interactive's upcoming stealth action game
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Adventure
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news'It's a damn miracle we were able to salvage Hytale,' original co-founder and new owner Simon Collins-Laflamme says: After years in development at Riot, 'it was barely playable'
By Andy Chalk Published
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NewsDispatch sold over 3 million copies in 2025, and only around five percent of players beat the game without romancing anyone
By Justin Wagner Published
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🏆Peak shows you don't need horror or quirky party games to be one of the best co-ops in years
By Mollie Taylor Published
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CASE CLOSEDI'm obsessed with detective games, and I think these 9 prove that 2025 was the best year for the genre ever
By Abbie Stone Published
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🏆A game about giant, helpless teddy bears fleeing a dying world may be a bit on the nose right now, but it's also my favorite game of 2025
By Andy Chalk Published
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🏆A psychic baby and whacky control scheme undersell the mundane brilliance of one of my favourite games this year
By James Bentley Published
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🏆I almost learned something in RV There Yet? but I was too busy smoking cigarettes and driving over big rocks
By Jacob Ridley Published
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NewsCo-op smash hit RV There Yet? gets an 'unplanned content update for an unplanned game' as the comedy vehicle sim surpasses 4.5 million copies sold
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsPeak just added an in-game concert starring rapper bbno$, but it's gone tomorrow
By Justin Wagner Published
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Battle Royale
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epic journey2025 was Fortnite's most topsy-turvy year ever with soaring peaks, miserable lows, and a raging AI debate
By Samuel Horti Published
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Drop inFortnite's Chapter 7 map guide: Where to land, boss locations, mythics and hot-air balloons
By Samuel Horti Last updated
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Super looterThe best weapons and loadout for Fortnite Chapter 7
By Samuel Horti Last updated
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newsFortnite has quickly pulled its latest accolades trailer after letting a saucy foreplay reference slip through the cracks
By Mollie Taylor Published
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NewsFortnite players are accusing it of using AI-generated art: 'I'm done with this game'
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newsFortnite's Kill Bill collaboration censors the Pussy Wagon, because I guess you can't say 'Pussy Wagon' in Fortnite
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Rapid fireEverything you need to know about Fortnite Blitz Royale and its Stranger Things theme
By Samuel Horti Last updated
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Yoink!Fortnite's The Simpsons season is one of the best in ages—here are 4 things Epic should learn from it
By Samuel Horti Published
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newsStranger Things refuses to let you forget its about to end forever by immortalising itself in Fortnite
By Mollie Taylor Published
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Board Game
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Keep rollin'All free Monopoly Go Dice Links for January 2026
By Kara Phillips Last updated
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Not to jinx itThe League of Legends trading card game is surprisingly good because it embraces the best trends in card games
By Jonathan Bolding Published
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NEWSGodzilla is stomping his way into the world of tabletop RPGs, with a new game from three legendary Warhammer designers
By Robin Valentine Published
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NEWSWarhammer's ridiculous new Christmas merch lets you dedicate your tree to the Chaos gods with a set of evil baubles
By Robin Valentine Published
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BEAK PERFORMANCEForget space marines and orks, the secret best faction in Warhammer 40,000 is a tribe of cannibal chicken aliens—and yes, I will elaborate
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NewsCheating accusations and worse are tearing the chess world apart in the aftermath of a 29 year-old grandmaster's death—What is happening in the game of kings?
By Rich Stanton Published
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LORE & ORDERConfused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide
By Robin Valentine Published
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OldhammerHow does Warhammer 40,000's first edition hold up today?
By Jody Macgregor Published
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NewsA lost chapter of Warhammer 40,000 space marines has been found: 'A miracle!'
By Jody Macgregor Published
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Card Game
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NewsPluribus lead Rhea Seehorn's career began as the 'tutorial sorceress' in a Magic The Gathering PC game from 1997
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsSlay the Spire gets the best Christmas present a deckbuilder could ask for: a new all-time concurrent player peak on Steam nearly 7 years after release
By Justin Wagner Published
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RED CARDSDeath Howl review: A brilliantly abrasive hybrid of deckbuilder and soulslike
By Abbie Stone Published
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NewsNew Magic: The Gathering infinite combo is just making The Hulk step on caltrops over and over until he's mad enough to win
By Harvey Randall Published
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News'We ended up flipping a coin': Slay the Spire devs left it up to pure chance whether they'd make a sequel or something else
By Wes Fenlon Published
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NewsGameStop gives someone a historic $30,000 trade-in payout for an ultra-rare Pokémon card, then takes aim at the 'trolls' for some reason
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsMagic: the Gathering's Monster Hunter reveal went so poorly that the whole thing is delayed: 'Back to the drawing board'
By Justin Wagner Published
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Hello… againSlay the Spire 2: All the key details on the beloved deckbuilder’s sequel
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NewsMagic: The Gathering's original art director says one of its most famous expansions was a protest against the Satanic Panic: 'I was getting really tired of the judgmental, holier-than-thou attitude coming from a lot of conservative so-called Christians'
By Rick Lane Published
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City Builder
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pretty cityThe city builders of 2026 will let us build in some wild places, including a Pokémon-style world filled with collectible creatures
By Christopher Livingston Published
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Whiskerwood looks like an adorable game of cat and mouse, but in reality it's a brutal city builder where my grossly incompetent governance never goes unpunished for long
By Andrea Shearon Published
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NewsCities: Skylines 2 finally gets its asset editor in a parting gift from the series' original developers
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsCities: Skylines 2's bicycle update adds a lot more than just bikes, as Colossal Order prepares to hand over development to a new studio
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsDespite 'Mixed' Steam reviews and a touch of AI slop, strategy city builder Anno 117: Pax Romana has the best launch in series history
By Christopher Livingston Published
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NewsAfter the bungled launch of Cities: Skylines 2, Paradox Interactive and Colossal Order part ways as development moves to a new studio
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsUbisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno'
By Justin Wagner Published
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Empire StateAnno 117: Pax Romana launch times and release date
By Lauren Morton Published
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Heaven senateAnno 117: Pax Romana review – A polished city builder that goes the extra mile
By Phil Iwaniuk Published
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FPS
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NewsQuake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
By Justin Wagner Published
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News2025 was so stacked with great games I missed the free, ass-kicking Christmas update to its best singleplayer shooter
By Justin Wagner Published
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News'Happy Gloom Year!': The new Gloomwood update is out, and it includes the game's 'largest, most vertical open area' yet
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NewsFallen Aces's second episode won't be out this year, but it will feature a first-person car chase with a tommy gun in both hands and a foot-operated steering wheel
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsRainbow Six Siege servers are back after hackers randomly doled out bans, unbans, rare skins and 'billions' in in-game currency
By Justin Wagner Published
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CHANGEWelcome to the FPS vibe shift
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Splatter ClausCelebrate the holidays the way Saint Nick intended, by blasting through hordes of enemies in the best Christmas-themed FPS mods
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsThe ill-starred Perfect Dark reboot had 'entire chapters' completed before cancellation, says Joanna Dark's voice actor, who 'did not see it coming… it was devastating'
By Rich Stanton Published
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NewsBattlefield 6 fans suspect EA used generative AI in a cosmetics pack for the shooter: 'I would literally prefer to have no sticker than some low quality AI generated garbage'
By Rick Lane Published
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Fighting
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news'It's a pretty big deal for me as a human': One of the FGC's most popular commentators is stepping away from future EVO events following its Saudi buyout
By Mollie Taylor Published
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NewsWorld's most powerful 92-year-old wins Tekken 8 tournament for the elderly
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newsTekken boss announces retirement after 30 years in the most Harada way imaginable: a lengthy social media post and hour-long mixtape
By Mollie Taylor Published
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Carry on campaignWhy I love Injustice 2's story mode
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NewsMortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection launches to mixed reviews on Steam
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newsCapcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it
By Mollie Taylor Published
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Ka-pow2XKO: Everything we know about the League of Legends fighting game
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newsMortal Kombat player nabs a tournament victory just 5 days after giving birth, all while her newborn chills in her lap
By Mollie Taylor Published
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NewsThe guy who says 'Toasty!' in Mortal Kombat has left NetherRealm after more than 30 years with the team
By Wes Fenlon Published
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Horror
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An entire intro where you play as Ashley was cut from the Resident Evil 4 remake
By Jody Macgregor Published
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newsSilent Hill 2 Remake dev Bloober Team kicks off 2026 by giving us 45 days to figure out what 'RemoSdNeulSerore-hsoOvamCeyerd' is
By Andy Chalk Published
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Fine &All active Dandy's World codes in January 2025 and how to redeem them in Roblox
By Shaun Cichacki Last updated
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🏆I play new games about once every never, but Killing Floor 3 reeled me in this year because it's basically not a new game
By Jacob Fox Published
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🏆Silent Hill f didn't just give us a superb SH game in the year of our lord 2025, but it offered up one of the best in the series
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UPDATEDThe best horror games on PC
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NewsDespite being banned from Steam and Epic, horror game Horses sells 18,000 copies—and while that's enough to pay loans and royalties, it's not enough for a new game
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🐎🐎🐎There's more to Horses than the Steam ban: The controversial horror game is a great example of how games can effectively borrow from film, and how they can also stumble
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Haunted HolidayPhasmophobia events and updates for 2025: Easter, Halloween, and holiday haunts
By Andrea Shearon Last updated
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Life Sim
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Sim-pleAre you a proper Sims buff? See if you can name all 97 expansion, game, and stuff packs in our quiz!
By Mollie Taylor Published
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newsEric Barone doesn't want to 'reveal much yet,' but Stardew Valley's 1.7 update is starting to sound like another big one
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Castle KeysAll Disney Dreamlight Valley codes and how to redeem them
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Dream onHow to unlock Cinderella in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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NewsNetflix sells the studio behind Cozy Grove back to its original owners, freeing the studio to bring its mobile life sim to other platforms
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsDisney Dreamlight Valley's new Dream Team feature will drastically improve life in the valley, and I cannot wait to beg my friends for resources
By Kara Phillips Published
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Magical girlAs if Disney Dreamlight Valley could get any more magical, the Wishblossom Ranch expansion adding horses has improved the entire experience more than I thought it would
By Kara Phillips Published
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Life PlanA human overview of Paralives: what you need to know about the upcoming indie life sim
By Lauren Morton Published
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Glass slipperHow to prepare for the Winter Ball update in Disney Dreamlight Valley
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MMO
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newsFormer Elder Scrolls Online chief confirms Microsoft's 2025 bloodbath drove his departure from ZeniMax: 'Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create'
By Andy Chalk Published
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newsI can tell World of Warcraft's player housing is going well by the amount of Star Wars stuff this one player keeps building
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BUCKLE UPThey survived the MMO massacre of 2025, but 2026 is going to be a tense year for WoW and FF14: And for completely different reasons
By Harvey Randall Published
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NewsEVE Online players destroyed 1,142,260,784,813,930 ISK worth of ships in 2025, which according to my caveman-level maths amounts to over $6 million lost to the void
By Rick Lane Published
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on the huntWorld of Warcraft: Midnight's new solo-friendly Prey mode will have bosses attacking you out of nowhere: 'There's going to be some really mean stuff that we're going to do to you'
By Heather Newman Published
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TRAIN-ING ARCFinal Fantasy 14's latest patch has me hopeful for the MMO's story again—even though Square Enix still has a lot of good will to recover
By Harvey Randall Published
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NewsWoW devs plan to 'whitelist' spells for use in combat mods and addons, and while it looks like Blizzard's going soft, I'm not sure that's the whole picture
By Harvey Randall Published
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LEAVE GROUPConfession time: How long do you stick it out before you abandon a terrible MMO dungeon/raid group?
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SWEET HOMEWhy I love player housing in MMOs
By Harvey Randall Published
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MOBA
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newsA major overhaul of League of Legends is reportedly coming in 2027: 'Once we're done, it should be the best time ever to get your friends into League'
By Andy Chalk Published
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newsAnother MOBA gives up: Supervive, developed by former Riot devs, is closing in February, just 7 months after it launched
By Andy Chalk Published
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newsAmazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft
By Andy Chalk Published
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NewsLeague of Legends just got WASD controls after 16 years, and you can probably guess how smoothly the rollout's going
By Ana Diaz Published
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NewsQuantic Dream's upcoming MOBA is opening its doors for a closed beta weekend in just a couple of weeks, but only a few players will make the cut
By Elie Gould Published
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Fired upSpellcasters Chronicles is my kind of MOBA, where I can summon skyscraper-sized titans, create an army of lizards, and just live happily in the chaos
By Elie Gould Published
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NewsA 'small update' just shook up Deadlock's basic mechanics and tweaked nearly every hero
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NewsSomehow, Heroes of Newerth returned: One of the first standalone MOBAs is back, but fans are mixed on its new look and bizarre launcher
By Justin Wagner Published
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Attack with titan'I'm as surprised as you are': After 7 years, Quantic Dream is taking a 'huge swing' with its first competitive MOBA, Spellcasters Chronicles
By Elie Gould Published
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Puzzle
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Real star'Fine, I'll do it myself': Cybertsu had never seen a King of All Cosmos cosplay, so decided to pull off one of the most elaborate headpiece designs, and it's the best I've ever seen
By Kara Phillips Published
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NewsBaba is News: One of the best puzzle games of the last decade just got a major update seven years after release
By Justin Wagner Published
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Word upCounterfeit Monkey is so magnificent a text adventure that I'm convinced the puzzle genre went wrong when it added graphics
By Jeremy Peel Published
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newsBlue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fuelled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher
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🏆Öoo is a 4 hour platformer about solving problems with bombs, and it's the cleverest puzzle game I played in 2025
By Shaun Prescott Published
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NewsJonathan Blow's new game has the most 'Jonathan Blow's new game' pitch imaginable: A 'game design supercollider' that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga
By Joshua Wolens Published
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NewsSteam's latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the 'cozy' era, but it's only officially available in English thanks to fan translators
By Wes Fenlon Published
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NewsRaw Fury is kicking off 'Rawcember' with a stacked Humble Bundle, featuring a discount on one of the year's coolest puzzle games
By Justin Wagner Published
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newsGhost of Yotei star Erika Ishii wants the world to know their pick for Game of the Year is not Ghost of Yotei: 'Blue Prince, all day, every day!'
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RPG
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Kensai/MageThe best Baldur's Gate 3 builds for Patch 8 and beyond
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newsFallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'
By Ted Litchfield Published
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News'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
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newsFallout: New Vegas lead writer 'loved writing' Yes Man, but thinks his questline may have been a mistake: 'It lets you get through the game without getting your hands dirty'
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newsMy favorite Fallout fan artist paints New Vegas how you imagine it, and he refuses to touch AI tools: 'I believe it’s innate in humanity to appreciate real human-made art'
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News'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's 'exasperated with the question'
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News'There's a lot of cool things that, if you think too hard about it, they should never have worked': Fallout 3's pathfinding system had to be completely reworked over several months to account for Liberty Prime, but it was worth it because he's 'awesome'
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FreemogemsAll Genshin Impact 6.3 livestream codes
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🏆I'm not waiting 5 years for everyone to realize The Outer Worlds 2 is another Obsidian classic—I'm giving it its flowers now
By Ted Litchfield Published
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RTS
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NewsThe original Dawn of War games have 109 new Steam achievements after 20 years—if you have the definitive edition, at least
By Justin Wagner Published
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NewsI'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism: A fanmade browser version of the best Command & Conquer
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NewsPromising RTS Dinolords, which is basically Age of Empires with dinosaurs, is getting a closed alpha playtest that you can join later this month
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newsDawn of War 4's 'guiding star' was the first in the series, but 'you're not trying to recreate the old game, you try to recreate the feeling'
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newsIf humans ever live on Mars, will they 'bend the knee to Earth's institutions' or turn the Red Planet even redder? Mars Tactics puts the answer in your hands next year
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NewsCommand & Conquer successor Tempest Rising gets a big new update next week, adding massive 3v3 multiplayer matches and active pause to singleplayer
By Rick Lane Published
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NewsHacker jacks into Nexon game, causes a 'Koyuki apocalypse' by copy-pasting their favourite anime girl everywhere, forces 6 hours of emergency maintenance
By Harvey Randall Published
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NewsHistory goes cheap in the Age of Empires franchise sale, with up to 75% off the classic RTS series
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newsMore than a year after its last update, this forgotten RTS from the makers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak is being removed from Steam
By Andy Chalk Published
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newsFallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games 'or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces' because 'we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team'
By Ted Litchfield Published
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NewsQuake modders banded together to release the third Brutalist Map Jam, with two campaigns' worth of FPS goodness in 'a megalithic community project more than a year in the making'
By Justin Wagner Published
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News'Yeah, that didn't suck. That was good': Fallout: New Vegas lead writer says the Survivalist's journal in Honest Hearts is 'one of my favorite bits of content that I've written in a game'
By Justin Wagner Published
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